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Discovery Health Newsletter
September 1, 2008
Welcome TAYLLOR!
Let Discovery Health be your partner in staying well.
 
Happy Labor Day!
in the spotlight
Food & Mood
As you progress in your plan toward fitness in the 2008 National Body Challenge, two enemies may begin to test your resolve ... boredom and frustration. It's not unusual to hit a plateau at this point, even though you've continued to follow all of the rules. But don't lose faith. Your persistence will be rewarded!

Fat Cells in Obese People Are "Sick"

7 Steps to Permanent Weight Loss

Top 10 Foods for Women

5 Ways to Become a Walkaholic

Getting (& Staying) Thin Is Not an Impossible Dream

What Triggers Your Eating?

Know Your Food Equivalencies

Vary Your Food & Exercise

Waist Is More Important Than Weight

Life in the Fast (Food) ***

11 Great Fitness Motivators

About Stress Eating

sexual health
What Do People Like (and Dislike) About Sex?
It's not exactly breaking news that most people enjoy sex. We asked eleven people what, specifically, they liked ... and what they could do without.

Erogenous Zones 101

Sex Trivia

Video Instructions: The Art of Sensual Touching

Video Instructions: How to Flirt

Video Instructions: Kissing 101

Video Instructions: The Best Orgasm

From the Sexual Health Bulletin Boards:
My fiance and I have sex every day.

From the Sexual Health Bulletin Boards:
I'm having a problem with my foreskin.

From the Sexual Health Bulletin Boards:
Can you get bird flu from sex?

From the Sexual Health Bulletin Boards:
Is female ejaculation myth or reality?



NEW! Jon & Kate Plus 8: Season 3 DVD Set
Gain rare access into the lives of one of America's favorite families, witnessing firsthand all the love, chaos and companionship that come with raising eight children.


main features
The TRUE Scoop on Plastic Surgery
From a nip and a tuck to radical body transformation, more people are choosing to have themselves sculpted toward their ideal. But no surgery is risk free. Here's where you can find the information to weigh the benefits versus those risks ... before you decide to go under the knife.

Before-and-After Photos

Amazing Transformations Slideshows

At-Home Wrinkle Fighters

What Does That Procedure Cost?

POLL: Would YOU Choose Plastic Surgery?

Choosing the Right Plastic Surgeon


SPONSOR'S MESSAGE
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Body in Numbers
While you're worrying about the bills or planning your next weekend getaway, your body is hard at work on a fairly important mission ... keeping you alive! Take our Human Body Tour, and you'll be stunned as you actually see the inner working of yourself. Don't miss the premiere this Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Discovery Health.

Know Thyself: The Body in Numbers Quiz


Body Atlas DVD Set
Venture inside the human body for an up-close, unprecedented look at the miniature miracles that occur everyday under our skin.


Your Prescription Translator
Just taking your pills may have been fine in the old days. But today it's important that you understand what you're taking and why. Use this interactive guide to find what you need to know about the medicines you're putting into your body.

The Drug Interaction Checker


Look Up Any Illness
Use the Discovery Health Diseases & Conditions Database for information that you really need for yourself and for those you love.


Discovery Health Jigsaw Puzzles
They're a great way to relax for a few minutes during a hectic day. Choose from ten health-related images, then try your hand at bringing order from the chaos. And every time you start again, the pieces break differently.


You On a Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management Book
More than a diet regimen, this book is a complete manual for total health and weight management.


health & fitness news

Is Your House Making You Fat?

Bad Jokes Bring on Hostility, Violence

Stem Cells Could Boost Blood Transfusion Supplies

Cheerleading Leads in Female Athletic Injuries

"Extended Cycle" Contraception Garners More Interest


hands-on health
NEWS IN FOCUS
The Daily Rounds: Wet, Mild Winters Spell Allergy Troubles

Wet and relatively mild weather in the winter season tend to make mold and other spring allergies especially bad, according to an expert from the University of Michigan Health System. You can find detailed information on the Mary Alice Williams reports that appear on Discovery Health TV every weeknight at 6:55 p.m. ET.

THIS WEEK'S QUIZ
The Heart Smart Quiz

See how much you know about keeping your ticker ticking along.

FEATURED TOOL
The Dream Interpreter

Ever wonder if your nighttime escapades are trying to tell you something?

EXPERT OPINION
Can You Still Walk When the Weather's Bad?

The folks at Howstuffworks.com are happy to report that ... yes, you can. Here's how.

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tv highlights
Today,
10:30 a.m. ET/PT
The Baby Diaries:
David and Kelly
Tuesday,
6 p.m. ET/PT
Code Blue:
Crossroads
best of tv this week
Tonight, 8 p.m. ET/PT
Mystery ER:
Rash Decision

An otherwise healthy college student comes down with a purple rash that literally spreads before his eyes. As the college student's health deteriorates the doctor must find the cause of the rash before time runs out.

Tonight, 9 p.m. ET/PT
Medical Incredible:
Implant for Tourettes

Tormented by two thousand violent tics a day; a father and son whose legs face backward; the bizarre sleep eater; a baby born with a parasitic twin; cure for a teenage hunchback, and the beautiful mystery of Williams' Syndrome.

Tonight, 10 p.m. ET/PT
Mystery Diagnosis:
The Woman With
a Knife in Her Head

Amanda is a healthy newlywed. When she and her husband try to have a child, they're faced with challenges as Amanda suffers from back-to-back miscarriages before conceiving successfully. Soon after giving birth, Amanda's life takes a turn for the worse.

Tuesday, 8 p.m. ET/PT
Raising a Six Pack
Meet two families who share an extraordinary story. Each had one child and used fertility drugs hoping for one more baby. Instead the Perrys of Pittsburgh, PA and the Colemans of Stoke Orchard, England each had sextuplets ... three girls, three boys.

Tuesday, 9 p.m. ET/PT
Joined for Life:
Abby & Brittany Turn 16

Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel are about to turn 16 ... that means they're very busy with schoolwork, sports, social activities and, yes, testing for their driver's license. To most this seems extraordinary, but to the girls it's just another day.

Tuesday, 10 p.m. ET/PT
Deliver Me: Eleventh Hour
While battling cervical cancer and the looming threat of a hysterectomy, Terri decides she still wants baby number two. Meanwhile, first-time mom Amanda is diagnosed with cervical incompetence and confined to strict bed-rest.

Wednesday, 8 p.m. ET/PT
Trauma, Life in the ER:
A Meaningful Life

Traumatic injury means dealing with issues like brain death, life support, organ donation and transplants for the staff of the University of Oklahoma Medical Center. A high school football player is brain dead after a car crash and a boy is hit by a car.

Wednesday, 9 p.m. ET/PT
Body in Numbers:
The Miracle of Life

Have you ever thought about what our bodies really do every second, every moment, to keep us alive?

Wednesday, 10 p.m. ET/PT
Super Obese
Andover Village Retirement Community is home to more than 50 morbidly obese patients who, due to their girth, are no longer able to live on their own. With an average weight of 500 pounds, residents work to set goals and lose weight. Meet three patients.

Thursday, 10 p.m. ET/PT
I Am My Own Twin
Babies are being born split right down the middle, half black and half white, a testicle on one side and a vagina on the other. Explore the extraordinary medical phenomena that causes two different babies to fuse together in the womb.

Friday, 8 p.m. ET/PT
Dr G, Medical Examiner:
Deadly Journeys

A 32-year-old woman dies the day after a 12-hour p*** ride. Dr. G must figure out what caused this young woman's untimely death. And a 35-year-old hitchhiker dies suddenly after sharing a drink with the person who gave her the ride.

Friday, 9 p.m. ET/PT
Dr G, Medical Examiner:
Deadly Lovers' Quarrel

A 67-year-old man with a history of strokes is found unconscious on a curb. He dies before reaching the hospital and Dr. G suspects foul play. And a 34-year-old man with a history of substance abuse is stabbed in the arm. He dies 2 weeks later.

Friday, 10 p.m. ET/PT
Dr G, Medical Examiner:
A Deadly Business

It's Dr. G.'s first case as an M.E. ... a funeral home director has been letting bodies pile up and rot in his home before he buries them. And a Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder dies suddenly in bed.
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